The hearing continues into whether suspended Mendocino County Auditor Chamise Cubbison and former county Payroll Manager Paula Kennedy will face trial on charges of felony misappropriation of public funds for allegedly overpaying Kennedy about $68,000 during the pandemic. Following two days of testimony last week they will be back in court tomorrow as a Superior Court judge decides whether the case will move forward or be dismissed. Last week’s testimony included the County CEO. Tuesday’s is set to include the Sheriff’s Office Investigator assigned to the case.
There is no foul play in the death of a man found unconscious last week at the Boggs Mountain Demonstration State Forest in Lake County. SFGate reports the 61-year-old Napa County man suffered a medical emergency after several hours of mountain biking. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office says his friends found him unconscious, called 911 and did CPR but neither they nor EMTs were able to revive him.
A Kelseyville man has been arrested for a Friday night stabbing at Pioneer Park. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office says the victim walked himself into the Kelseyville Fire Protection Station for help and was then taken to a hospital where he is said to be in stable condition. The victim says he was having an argument with Anthony Black when Black allegedly stabbed him. The Sheriff’s Office says Black is charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and resisting arrest.
You can support young local writers at the 2025 Lake County Poetry Out Loud Competition this weekend. The Lake County Arts Council and Lake County Poet Laureate Brenda Yeager invite you to the event Saturday, February 1 at Noon at the Soper Reese Theater in Lakeport. Poetry Out Loud is a nationwide program now in its 20th year. For Lake County this year, the competing schools are Lower Lake High School, Middletown High School and Kelseyville High School where the teachers and county representative for California Poets in the Schools Michele Krueger have been working with their students. The winners will compete for the chance to represent Lake County at the state level and then the State winners move on to compete at the national level. And it’s not just for school or personal pride – the winners also get cash prizes.
Young artists are invited to submit work to the Deep Valley Arts fourth annual youth group exhibition at MEDIUM Art Gallery in Ukiah. Artists aged 18 and under are invited to create a piece of artwork with all mediums allowed and pieces chosen for the show will have the option to be listed for sale with no commission fee. There is no entry fee although there is a limit of one entry per artist. The work must be framed or mounted and ready to be hung or put on a pedestal with hardware on it. The deadline to enter is Sunday, February 23. The show runs at MEDIUM from March 7-29. To be considered, all artwork must be submitted online to www.deepvalleyarts.org/call-for-entry.
Heads up if you use Fort Bragg’s CV Starr Center. Officials say it will be closed on Friday, February 7, for a transformer upgrade which will mean cutting the power for most of the day. The work is scheduled to start at 9am and be done by afternoon with the Center expected to be back open on Saturday, February 8.
Sport fishermen have a new tool to help find the best places to go, but officials say it will work best if fishermen work together. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has a new website called the California Inland Recreational Angler Survey with a dashboard called “Ready to Fish”. You can log info on the fish you catch, or don’t catch, and the overall angling experience from a single fishing trip. They say this new platform is better than their old one because now you can submit – and interact with – information about any sport fish from any fishable inland water in the state. As with most crowdsourcing tools, the more fishermen that participate the better the data. And CDFW says they’ll also use the info to see if they need to adjust management of any fisheries.
